Icarium Posted January 18, 2019 I haven’t played Doom since 1996 (minus a partial play through of Doom II in college at some point) and I am completely blown away by the amount of resources there are available and the support these games still get from the community! Also the fun I’m having playing/replaying these. i purchased the iwad files from Steam and got GZDoom up and running. So far I’ve played through the first three episodes of Ultimate Doom with keyboard only controls (the way I remember from back then) but now I have mouse + wasd set up for my current playthroughs of Heretic and Doom II. I also have Eviternity and NEIS ready to go soon. Needless to say, I’m pretty excited about how much fun I’m having. Anyway, mostly just wanted to introduce myself and see if there are any other recommendations than what I’m currently doing. After Doom II I’ll try out e4 and probably try to get into the Final Doom wads. 40 Share this post Link to post
Gaia74 Posted January 18, 2019 Welcome To Doomworld! Yeah, try the final doom wads, and then you can fight with the most popular custom iwads like memento mori, alien vendetta, scythe 2 Happy fight with the demons! :P 2 Share this post Link to post
elend Posted January 18, 2019 Welcome to Doomworld. There is only one thing I can tell you: Enjoy yourself! 2 Share this post Link to post
Chezza Posted January 18, 2019 Welcome, good to have you. E4 may come with a shock with difficulty. You have no idea how many great wads and mods are out there. I don't even know what to recommend. Something more old school and humble / less difficulty to start or go to wads like Valiant. 0 Share this post Link to post
Icarium Posted January 18, 2019 5 minutes ago, Chezza said: Welcome, good to have you. E4 may come with a shock with difficulty. You have no idea how many great wads and mods are out there. I don't even know what to recommend. Something more old school and humble / less difficulty to start or go to wads like Valiant. Hi, thanks. And thanks elend and Gaea74 also! Another wad that is on my radar and I would like to try is Doom the way id did. I understand the level design/aesthetics are meant to be similar to the original 3 episodes, but does the difficulty level approximate the OG episodes as well? As for my current skill level, I played ep1-3 on Hurt Me Plenty and while it was comfortable, I wouldn't call it easy. Some of that was probably the controls, though, as keyboard+mouse seems way easier to control now. I don't intend for this to become a wad recommendation thread, but certainly give me a few more examples of interesting mods with a somewhat lower skill requirement if you have any handy. Heretic seems roughly similar in difficulty so far, but still on e1. I think all I played back in the day was the shareware version of this one. Oh, and I'm definitely looking forward to Romero's upcoming e5 wad! 2 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted January 18, 2019 28 minutes ago, Icarium said: give me a few more examples of interesting mods with a somewhat lower skill requirement if you have any handy. The following three threads include plenty of suggestions (as you can see, TVR is a common recommendation): 5 Share this post Link to post
Nancsi Posted January 18, 2019 Don't forget No Rest for the Living. You will be blown away by that (as how it's spirit is close to the original game, particularly KDITD, but at the same time, limit removal and modern as wel). Also don't forget Tech Gone Bad and Phobos Mission Control by Romero. 3 Share this post Link to post
dmslr Posted January 18, 2019 (edited) 12 hours ago, Icarium said: recommendations Don't try to kill an aware Pain Elemental with rocket launcher in Doom 2 3 Share this post Link to post
Cruduxy Pegg Posted January 18, 2019 Welcome back, now you are stuck with us muahahahahahaha! 2 Share this post Link to post
CorianderCastor Posted January 18, 2019 https://onemandoom.blogspot.com I just leave that there. Also, the Master Levels are worth playing (if you have them) as far as I'm concerned. Honestly, just try everything. Most of it is good or better, and they tend to be small files. 12 hours ago, Icarium said: does the difficulty level approximate the OG episodes as well? I personally found all twid wads to be harder than vanilla, but not hard per se. Excepting udtwid of course, i.e. E4. 0 Share this post Link to post
Icarium Posted January 18, 2019 26 minutes ago, PaquoCastor said: https://onemandoom.blogspot.com I just leave that there. Thanks... there went my morning at work. Excellent site! 3 Share this post Link to post
riderr3 Posted January 18, 2019 Welcome back, marine! Check out the cacowards section at the top of the page. It's annual award ceremony honoring the year's top releases. 5 Share this post Link to post
Pegleg Posted January 18, 2019 @Icarium Welcome back to Doom and welcome to Doomworld! Speaking for personal experience, coming back after a long absence (mine was 16 years), it can be daunting trying to survey the current landscape and try to wade through all the material out there. I think you've got a good plan for how to move forward. I would recommend playing some other things before you jump into Eviternity. The Cacowards (and the Top 100 WAD list before them) are all good, but some of them (looking at you Hell Revealed) are way past the IWAD difficulty and then you have the total conversions (Aliens and Batman Doom are both on the list), which can be quite different. I know you didn't want to make this into another wad recommendation thread (there's a lot already), but a few mapsets to add to your list given what you're looking for (in addition to the number of recommendations you've already received): The Lost Episodes of Doom (if you can get it) Perdition's Gate (if you can get it) Double Impact The Darkening (Episode 1 certainly, Episode 2 is good, too) Doom 64 for Doom 2 6 Share this post Link to post
Master O Posted January 18, 2019 28 minutes ago, Pegleg said: @Icarium Welcome back to Doom and welcome to Doomworld! Speaking for personal experience, coming back after a long absence (mine was 16 years), it can be daunting trying to survey the current landscape and try to wade through all the material out there. I think you've got a good plan for how to move forward. I would recommend playing some other things before you jump into Eviternity. The Cacowards (and the Top 100 WAD list before them) are all good, but some of them (looking at you Hell Revealed) are way past the IWAD difficulty and then you have the total conversions (Aliens and Batman Doom are both on the list), which can be quite different. I know you didn't want to make this into another wad recommendation thread (there's a lot already), but a few mapsets to add to your list given what you're looking for (in addition to the number of recommendations you've already received): The Lost Episodes of Doom (if you can get it) Perdition's Gate (if you can get it) Double Impact The Darkening (Episode 1 certainly, Episode 2 is good, too) Doom 64 for Doom 2 As far as I remember, we can post the link to the Perdition's Gate wad on the forums now, since the rights reverted back to Mustaine. He said so himself a year or so ago. 3 Share this post Link to post
Icarium Posted January 18, 2019 After a little poking around I went ahead and grabbed Perdition's Gate from Mustaine's site :) 2 Share this post Link to post
Dutch Doomer Posted January 18, 2019 You joined Doomworld, you're lost forever :p 4 Share this post Link to post
RonLivingston Posted January 18, 2019 Welcome to doomworld! longtime doom guy 0 Share this post Link to post
Pegleg Posted January 18, 2019 2 hours ago, Master O said: As far as I remember, we can post the link to the Perdition's Gate wad on the forums now, since the rights reverted back to Mustaine. He said so himself a year or so ago. I did not know that. Thank you very much. 0 Share this post Link to post
Master O Posted January 18, 2019 (edited) 45 minutes ago, Pegleg said: I did not know that. Thank you very much. Here it is. Go to tmustaine's post: 2 Share this post Link to post
blackdoom Posted January 19, 2019 The Lost Episode.wad Wonderful Doom v.1.3.wad Icarus.wad Memento Mori 1.wad Memento Mori 2.wad Requiem.wad Perdition's Gate.wad Alien Vendetta.wad All this wad with dosbox or chocolate doom 0 Share this post Link to post
blackdoom Posted January 19, 2019 (edited) 4 minutes ago, blackdoom said: 0 Share this post Link to post
Avoozl Posted January 19, 2019 Stay a while, stay forever! Anyways welcome to the community. 1 Share this post Link to post
VanaheimRanger Posted January 19, 2019 My first pwad after finishing Ultimate Doom and Doom II was Ancient Aliens. It's probably already been mentioned here, but I thought I'd throw it in the ring. I also highly suggest Back to Saturn X and Tangerine Nightmare. 1 Share this post Link to post
Master O Posted January 19, 2019 On 1/18/2019 at 3:09 AM, Nancsi said: Don't forget No Rest for the Living. You will be blown away by that (as how it's spirit is close to the original game, particularly KDITD, but at the same time, limit removal and modern as wel). Also don't forget Tech Gone Bad and Phobos Mission Control by Romero. I second NRFTL. The only flaw it has is that for some reason, there are no Backpacks until the final level. I guess that was intentional. 1 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted January 19, 2019 2 hours ago, Master O said: I second NRFTL. The only flaw it has is that for some reason, there are no Backpacks until the final level. I guess that was intentional. Yes, it was definitely intentional: On mardi 22 avril 2014 at 9:54 AM, TheCastle said: Honestly, after closely analyzing doom 2 for everything its worth I found that the most balancing destroying item in the game was the backpack. Nothing compares to what this item does to the games overall balance. https://www.doomworld.com/forum/post/1261270 @TheCastle was, with @Squibbons, one of the two level designers for NRFTL. 2 Share this post Link to post
CorianderCastor Posted January 19, 2019 The DWmegawad Club is worth a look at. 1 Share this post Link to post
TakenStew22 Posted January 20, 2019 I'm late but welcome to Doomworld! Now you're stuck here forever. >:) 0 Share this post Link to post
Soundblock Posted January 20, 2019 (edited) Welcome back! Watch some Sunder playthroughs on YouTube to have an approximation of how far down into hell the community has burrowed since the 90's. 2 Share this post Link to post